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From: Alan Modra <amodra@gmail.com>
To: Simon Marchi <simon.marchi@polymtl.ca>
Cc: binutils@sourceware.org,
	"gdb-patches@sourceware.org" <gdb-patches@sourceware.org>
Subject: Re: Using the vcs_to_changelog.py script
Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2020 01:03:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200213010322.GB29647@bubble.grove.modra.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <fae607e5-7fec-b295-a579-7a8ea7c214da@polymtl.ca>

On Wed, Feb 12, 2020 at 06:32:51PM -0500, Simon Marchi wrote:
> For illustrative purposes, here's what the script outputs for the last bunch
> of commits in binutils-gdb:
> 
>   http://paste.ubuntu.com/p/x38zs82Rmt/

Not fit for the original purpose of change logs as far as developers
are concerned, but I for one don't use them at all nowadays to see
what changed when.  "git log" and "git blame" are far better.

Does this satisfy the FSF legal requirements?  "Who changed what"
won't be accurate unless committers remember to set the author
properly on commits made for other people.

-- 
Alan Modra
Australia Development Lab, IBM

  reply	other threads:[~2020-02-13  1:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-02-12 23:33 Simon Marchi
2020-02-13  1:03 ` Alan Modra [this message]
2020-02-13  2:29   ` Jeff Law
2020-02-13  3:13     ` Simon Marchi
2020-02-13 14:13     ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-02-13  3:37 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-02-13 14:19   ` Simon Marchi
2020-02-13 15:42     ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-02-13 16:26       ` Simon Marchi
2020-02-13 18:58         ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-02-13 19:09           ` Philippe Waroquiers
2020-02-13 19:29             ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-02-13 20:56               ` Simon Marchi
2020-02-13 21:07           ` Simon Marchi
2020-02-14  9:45             ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-02-14 19:31               ` Simon Marchi
2020-02-14 20:16                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-02-14 21:08                   ` Simon Marchi
2020-02-15  7:26                     ` Eli Zaretskii

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